catalan labour market (servei d'ocupació de catalunya)

Catalan labour market

The role of mobility programmes

and some Labour Market Active

Policies concerning Russian-

speakers population

Tallin, September 2014

Some information about the labour market

SOC: Públic Employment Service of Catalonia


CATALONIA. Some labour market information.

• Population: 7.550.000

• Foreign population: 15,3%

(since 2009 stopped inflows migration)

CATALONIA


• Foreign population: 15,3% (since 2009)

• Economy increasingly based on services

(Commerce, tranport and restaurants: 25%)


CATALONIA • Population: 7.550.000



• Employed population: 3.000.000

(since 2008: 610.000 jobs have been lost)


CATALONIA





• Unemployment rate:

20,22% (2014)

770.000 unemployed people


CATALONIA





• Unemployment rate: 20,22% (2014)

• Youth unemployment rate: 51% (2012)


CATALONIA

• Population: 7.550.000 (since 2009)






20% of young people are not

employed neither studying.

More tan one third of young job-

seekers are looking for their first job.

They never worked before.


CATALONIA

• Population: 7.550.000 (since 2009)






• Clear difficulties to find a job to people

older than 45 years old.

They are the 30% of job-seekers, but

the 63% of long- term unemployment.

In general, 60% of unemployed are

looking for a job since more than 1

year.


SOC SYSTEM for tackling unemployment

Catalan Public Employment Service –Tackling unemployment

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MUNICIPALITIES

AND LOCAL

AGENTS

ASSOCIATIONS

AND NGOs

ENTERPRISES

SOCIAL

PARTNERS

INTERMEDIATION

AGENCIES

UNIVERSITIES

CHAMBERS OF

COMMERCE

SOC GOALS (2014-2016) for tackling unemployment

Catalan Public Employment Service –Tackling unemployment

• Underpin and coordinate guiding services

• Improve skills and qualifications aligned with the labour market needs

• Foster Vocational Education and Training (VET) in on-job programmes

• Create alliances and strategies of local development policies

• Set up Public-Private Partnership (PPP) collaborations.

• Implement the Youth Guarantee Program

• Encourage enterpreneurship

SOC Mobility programs:

I. EURES

Mobility programmes

Cooperation network designed to facilitate the free movement of workers within the

European Economic Area.

• to inform, guide and provide advice to potentially mobile workers on job

opportunities as well as living and working conditions in the European

Economic Area;

• to assist employers wishing to recruit workers from other countries

• to provide advice and guidance to workers and employers in cross-border

regions.

2 professionals fully dedicated to this tasks


II. EURODYSSEY

Mobility programmes

Eurodyssey is an exchange programme of the Assembly of European Regions

(AER) which allows young job seekers aged between 18 and 30 to benefit from a

traineeship placement abroad for a period of six months.

• 70-80 participants per year.

• 73% of participants find a job in less than 3 months.

• 25% of participants are staying abroad after the programme.


III. LEONARDO DA VINCI

Mobility programmes

Leonardo da Vinci is an exchange programme which allows young job seekers to

benefit from a traineeship placement abroad for a period of four months.

• 100 participants per year.

• It is focused to some countries (UK, France, Germany, Italy….)

• Before participanting, they get language classes.

Hereinafter this programme will be under ‘ERASMUS+’


IV. ERASMUS+ (2014-2015)

Mobility programmes

• Young people participating in VET programmes (provided by SOC’s VET

centres), will have the choice to participate in an internship abroad..

• The destination countries and the companies that will look for the internship

placement are already selected (as partners of the project).

• The participants should be from qualifications on which the language plays a

key role, or qualifications highly demanded (European job vancancy monitor).

• There will be a recruitment process

• 100 participants foreseen for 2014-2015.

• There will be an online tool to set up, manage and assess the internship.

SOC pilot projects. European – Russian:

SOC pilot projects. European-Russian.

Russian language is increasingly important for the Catalan economy. For example

in the tourism sector.

• 977.140 Russian tourists visited Catalonia in 2013

• It is the 5th largest group behind France, United Kingdom, Germany and

Italy

• The average days Russian tourists spend in Catalonia is 10.5. The largest

between all tourists.

• Between December 2012 and November 2013, Russian tourists spent

1319.4 millions of € in Catalonia.



I. Russian language adressed to job-seekers in the tourist, retail and

comercial sector

New training qualification (140 hours), that will be registered in the VET catalogue

of SOC.

• The programme content were set up with the collaboration of the Official

School of Languages (Barcelona).

• Nowadays, it is in a pilot phase. The recruitment of participants (15 people)

finished last 18th september 2014.



II. Training on Tourist sector to russian-speakers jobseekers

On the context of a VET program based on the tourist sector, some trainings were

specially addressed to russian-speakers.

• Some studies emphasize the importance (for the competitiveness) of the

Russian language in the tourist sector.

• It is much easier retrain russian-speakers (with enough soft skills) to the

tourist sector than acquire a high Russian-language level by native.

• Nowadays, it is in a pilot phase. The recruitment of participants have been

during september 2014.



II. Training on Tourist sector to russian-speakers jobseekers

VET provided (September 2014):

• Hotel receptionist. Level 3. 510 h.

2 Courses at Barcelona and Tarragona

• Tour guide. Level 3. 570 h.

1 Course at Tarragona

• Restaurant assistant. Level 1. 270 h.

2 Courses at Barcelona and Girona

• Hotel room assistant. Level 1. 300 h.

1 Course at Barcelona



Double dividend: Tackling Russian-speakers unemployment while improving

sectoral competitiveness

Russian job seekers are increasingly important in the Public Employment Service.

Level EQF (aprox.) People

Tertiary education Level 6 and uppper 1.116

High VET education Level 5 344

Upper secundary education Level 4 960

Medium Vocational Education and Training Level 4 434

Secundary education (compulsory) Level 3 6.870

Less than secundary education Level 2 1.431

Non-education level 231

11.386

Source: SOC

Russian-speakers unemployed Job-seekers in Catalonia (des.2014)



Way forward:

Assesment of the resolts during the traning and once finished the training

(collocations in the labour market). To improve:

• Activation measures

• The profile to be recruited and the recruitment process

• Training specialties to be chosen

• Complementary contents/skills

It would be possible to work out this pilot project on other strategical sectors:

Commerce, housing sector, some industrial sector…

Some research on labour market needs could be done



Participants perception:

• Russian language is an important added value when looking for a job.

• VET is considered as a fast way to obtain a professional accreditation

• It is very attractive the fact that the obtained qualification is recognized in

Europe (EUROPASS)

• Other sectors (in addition to tourism) demanding Russian language:

• Commercial

• Housing

• Some customer services (as retail, medical, beauty…)

• The difficulties of translate and convalidate the education from the origin country

is a huge barrier (expensive and 2 years!).

• There is a important over-education phenomen (under-occupation!).



Some provisional findings:

• English is necessary anyway (English should be complementary accredited or

trained).

• There should be better information and support about how to convalidate the

education

• The recruitment of candidates should be wider than SOC database (primary and

secondary schools, language centers, local employment services, social

services, religious centers)

• It would be interesting offering this VET programme within a labour activation

programme.

• Russian could be the foreign language to be provided in qualifications related

with other sectors demanding this language.

Some data about mobility


• 64% of youth consider than living abroad is a positive experience (CIS). Desirable

option.

• The increase of emigration from Spain since 2007 is about 125% (EEO). Quite

significative.

• Few emigrants from Spain are Spanish nationals (12,3%).Most of them are non-EU

nationals: Morocco and South America (EEO).

• These last years have been an important ‘return migration’:

10% outflows to Romania

13% outflows to Morocco

Other: Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia…

• Spanish nationals primarily moved to UK, US, France and Germany.

• Mobile population from Spain are predominately high-skilled (EU-LFS): 78% of movers

(highest rate in EU).

• 42% of high-skilled Spanish movers are working in low-skilled works (one of the highest

in EU)



• Cutbacks on R&D spending generates losses of human capital trough emigration.

Altough emigration of Spanish nationals from Spain is quite low, as seen.

• Labour Market Intelligence to identify asymmetries, competitiveness oportunities, and

labour market needs; in order to anticipate policies.

Both for promoting outflows and for taking advantatge of inflows

• To improve the mutual recognition of qualifications and education levels

• To develop language skills



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